A roof collapses at a party. A fire breaks out in a hospital. A terrorist sets off a bomb at a concert. The number and severity of casualties may be overwhelming and the University of Sydney is working to ensure ...

More work needs to be done on the rollout of the government’s Increasing Choice in Home Care (ICHC) program, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) says. Announced in the 2015-16 Budget and commenced on 27 February 2017, the ICHC reforms aimed ...

Nurses and managers should be aware of a recent High Court of Australia decision concerning liability for the criminal acts of an employee. Vicarious liability is the legal notion of a relationship between an employer and employee (with some exceptions) ...

Dealing with sensitive information when caring for distressed drug and alcohol clients and the resulting emotional toll and exhaustion leaves nurses at risk of a range of health issues, a clinical nurse specialist says. Ravina Raidu, from Drug Health Services, ...

People who have experienced a medical injury need to be heard by clinicians and feel that the hospital is taking steps to address the issue, say researchers. Senior law lecturer at UNSW Sydney Dr Jennifer Moore said this might involve listening ...

Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in Australia. It is estimated that one in seven people in any 12-month period will be affected by an anxiety disorder. The disorder presents in many forms, including generalised anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress ...

History tells us that intentional injury is not a new phenomenon: in 1860 a French pathologist Auguste Ambroise Tardieu wrote a forensic study on the cruelty and the ill treatment of children. While the terminology has evolved over time to ...

Health professionals from Australia and the UK met to address the issue of patient safety and practitioner regulations at a seminar last week. Held in Melbourne, the event saw members of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the ...

Can you design a better health system around you? Professor Terry Young, from London’s Brunel University, unpacked this question in a seminar at Flinders College of Medicine and Public Health. Flinders Professor Mark Mackay said not enough time is spent ...

“Urinary incontinence is not something teen girls talk about because no one really tells them it’s something they should be thinking about.” Because of this silence, Swinburne University of Technology Associate Professor Nicole Wragg says, many young girls are likely ...